All of society has an obligation to ensure that its citizens can live their lives in peace and security. The police are doing their job. Leaders in the African American and Latino communities have struggled to do their part, as well. Myriad organizations exist in New York City and across the country to steer the wayward on a better path and to protect potential victims from those who violently veer off it. But new alliances must be formed between the two to get guns off the streets and to break the "stop snitching" culture that allows cases to go unsolved, criminals to go free and communities to cower in fear. It's time to stop being speechless and feeling powerless. It's time the hunted fought back.
Bold emphasis mine. How can someone otherwise so smart, be so stupid?
Does the obligation of ensuring peace and security include removing threats from the country and the world? Does it include the understanding that having programs with hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of unfunded liability do not contribute to security?
(From you) How can someone otherwise so smart, be so stupid?
Ideologies sometimes blind. It isn't guns "in the streets" that are bad, it's guns in the hands of criminals. But guns in the hands of criminals can be cured by guns in the hand of trained, good people. New York might have many good people (doesn't it?) but not so many trained good people and almost none with guns in their daily possession.
But new alliances must be formed between the two to get guns off the streets and to break the "stop snitching" culture...
Using the grabber logic of blaming the object and not the user of the object, couldn't we make a persuasive case for ripping up the streets? Then there wouldn't be any streets for the guns to be 'on.' It would be a lot easier for the city to rip up a street than to try to get criminals to hand in their guns.